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by russell 17y ago
I think the real original sin was the decision to be a dumbed-down C++, avoiding all the ugliness and hard to get right parts, in particular eliminating operator overloading. With operator overloading supporting the normal meanings of the
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by russell 17y ago
Gladwell's article says that the underdog can win by using unorthodox tactics. One of his examples is a team of undersized, unskilled 12 year old girl basketball players that made it to the Nationals by employing the full court press and r
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by russell 17y ago
Hasselblad had a near death experience because it fumbled the transition to digital photography. This a good article about an industry where major players failed to make the transition because "core competence = core incompetence." Hassel
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by russell 17y ago
It would be a useful to include the language name where it is not obvious. For example, he mentions Haskel, but I cant tell which one it is.
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by russell 17y ago
I don't Know about that. I put Kim Jong Il right up there with Mini-Me.
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by russell 17y ago
I guess it's my fault. I'm a science fiction novel fan: character development, story, action, society building, and ideas. In a short story you only get one. And as soon as you get attached to a character, setting, or idea, bang it's don
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by russell 17y ago
Good grief! Take your favorite OSS project, or even Windows. What do you think it would look like after 4 billion years of cut and paste.
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by russell 17y ago
I took the plunge and looked around the site. I didnt actually sign up; it sure wasnt anything I wanted. It looks like a way for the creatively challenged to create content for the various social networking sites. The user doesn't even h
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by russell 17y ago
Where are those 20 page essays on the web? The typical blogging format seems to be 2 paragraphs and a link to someone else's 4 paragraphs. Or maybe there arent enough people with anything thoughtful to say.
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by russell 17y ago
The answer is yes, but it would take a long time. The method is having dozens of asteroids pass close to the transportee over and over for a very long time. I am a little skeptical. Wouldn't this slow drifting into the earth's orbit cause
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by russell 17y ago
Well, it must be evolution-x day. Acting stupid is unconscious attempt to invite a lek. A lek is a display of males before females. A woman makes a stupid remark to see which males give stupid replies, and if she is lucky, intelligent one
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by russell 17y ago
> Unlike tobacco, which was traditionally defended by a coalition of libertarians and politicians from conservative tobacco-growing Southern states, pornography’s most prominent defenders in the public sphere — including its industry sp
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by russell 17y ago
> Men, meanwhile, are stuck with a sub-optimal instinct. Their desires are fired by a pair of useless bags of fat. Men cannot afford to lose this instinct, however. Non-lactating breasts are like nuclear missiles: we only need them or
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by russell 17y ago
This article attempts to draw parallels between tobacco an porn in the promotion, use, addiction, and rationalization of the "substances." I'm not moved. Tobacco kills and injures people even innocent bystanders. There may be a case for p
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by russell 17y ago
I was the engineering manager at a small company quite a while back. A woman asked to work for us for free. She had some experience, but couldnt get a job. It might have been visa issues or something like that. I said no. We didnt have
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by russell 17y ago
1983? It's obvious this guy is just a kid. The stuff he talks about is new stuff. OS/370, 029 keypunches, Fortran 66, Quiche, for god's sake? I started programming in college in Fortran II on a 7094 running UMES (University of Michigan
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by russell 17y ago
It probably varies state by state, but various forms of digital signing are legal. If you are the signer, why do you care if they are enforceable? The weaker the legality, the better off you are. OTOH dont sign anything online that you wo
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by russell 17y ago
> Svante Paabo [said], "We will speak to the mouse." He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply. They do however whistle back. The "humanized" baby mice do so at a lower pitch than normal mice. I find it interesti
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by russell 17y ago
It's a video demo of bing, a supersonic flyover of the features. The demo is obviously consumer oriented, but the teaser in interesting enough that I will give it a try for my consumer searches. Recently my SO and I made a trip to Virgini
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by russell 17y ago
The first page gives the impression that there is nothing there, but if you follow the links there is quite a bit, including an opportunity to play in the sandbox. It looks like it's the next generation beyond iGoogle and OpenSocial. The
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by russell 17y ago
The short answer is no. This stuff has been around for 40-50 years and you dont see it in homes. The few things that homeowners do care about have special purpose controllers: heating, irrigation, perimeter lighting. I see no need to fir
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by russell 17y ago
> An attacker which can read out the passwords from your database already owns your site. Never store passwords in plain text. They are open to a disgruntled employee. It happens frequently enough to just not take a chance.
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by russell 17y ago
If you dont know this much, you will shoot yourself in the foot, getting hard to track down errors. There a several other important things to know not mentioned in the article. - Don't test for equality. Use "abs(a/b - 1) < epsilon", w
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by russell 17y ago
The article is skeptical and superficial, but if I were to assemble a research program to create real-world, operates-out-in-the-wild intelligence, my one page executive overview would look a lot like the Air Force requirements. This set o
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by russell 17y ago
I think it's the culture. Stanford has long had culture of fostering entrepreneurship. The concentration of smart people helps. You can spout off about your latest harebrained scheme and there is better chance of good criticism or even a
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by russell 17y ago
Theirs or ours? The article presumes that minority ownership or even board membership gives you access private or proprietary personal information. Ain't so, unless Facebook is incredibly stupid. On second thought, given some of their pas
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by russell 17y ago
If you broaden it a bit to include other elite schools like MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, etc. the impact is enormous. Their innovations won WWII. Their students and alumni founded HP, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Intel, and on
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by russell 17y ago
Yes it is, but the article is a little light on content. It mentions innovations in content delivery (open textbooks), social networking for education, and a company that is creating language courses emphasizing audio feedback. What's miss
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by russell 17y ago
Sorry Mark, this wont fly. We already have perfectly good languages to speak to computers: Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and the like. Not a hint of prime numbers. Artificial languages for human to human communication communication have been
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by russell 17y ago
I've always attributed it to Mae West, but I googled a bit and found it also attributed to Beatrice Kaufman, Sophie Tucker, an a host of others. http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/ive_... In any case I think they all

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